On Tue, 27 April 2004 01:44:55 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:> > Again a conscious decision. If a name is potentially inaccessible because> of an IO error it is better to allow the creation of a potentially duplicate> name than refuse creation of any new entries in the directory. It's a matter> of allowing the filesystem to be used as well as possible in the face of> failures vs. just giving up and refusing to do anything.

Do you mind if I doubt the sanity of whoever made that decision? Whenmy hard drive fails, I don't care about writing to the fs too muchanymore, I want to *notice* the failure early and to *read* as much aspossible, then put the drive on a pile for test hardware.